Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsSigning of documents by or on behalf of a company
(1) This Division applies to a document (including a deed) to be signed by a person:
(a) exercising the powers of a company under section 126 (making of contracts and execution of documents by an agent); or
(b) under section 127 (execution of documents by a company).
Note 1: A document is any record of information: see the definition of document in section 9.
Note 2: This Division provides that a person may sign a document in physical form or electronic form: see subsection 110A(1).
Signing of documents relating to meetings etc.
(2) This Division applies to a document (including a deed) required or permitted to be signed by a person under this Act that relates to:
(a) a meeting of the members of a company, registered scheme or sub-fund of a CCIV (including a meeting of a class of members); or
(b) a resolution to be considered by the directors or members of a company (including a resolution to be considered by a class of members of a company) without a meeting; or
(ba) a resolution to be considered by the members of a sub-fund of a CCIV without a meeting; or
(c) a meeting of the directors of a company (including a meeting of a committee of directors).
Signing of prescribed documents
(3) This Division applies to a document (including a deed) required or permitted to be signed by a person under this Act if the document is, or is in a class of documents that is, prescribed by regulations made for the purposes of this subsection.
Other ways of signing documents not limited
(4) This Division does not limit the ways in which a person may sign a document (including a deed).
Note: For example, a company's constitution may set out ways in which a document (including a deed) may be executed or signed in addition to the ways a document (including a deed) may be executed in accordance with sections 126 and 127 or signed in accordance with this Division.